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Vicki Boykis, Dead Internet Souls, Normcore Tech, 2024

Vicki Boykis, Dead Internet Souls, Normcore Tech, 2024

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Rabbi Zachi Asher, New Ancestors, The Epichorus, 2025, Temenos

Jack Cheng, for marty, 2025

James Richardson, Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1999

James Richardson, Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1999

James Richardson, Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1999

James Richardson, Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1999

James Richardson, Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1999

James Richardson

Chris Siebenmann, Using systems because you know them already, Wandering Thoughts, 2025

Frank Chimero → Alex Eaton, Reply to Alex Eaton asking how to use "I" less when writing, The Good Place, 2025

Craig Mod, Day 1: Jyusan Pass to Ena, Between Two Mountains, 2025

Frank Chimero, Selling Lemons, 2025

Frank Chimero, Selling Lemons: The hidden costs of the meta game, 2025

Rabbi Zachi Asher, Yom Kippur 5786, The Epichorus, 2025, Temenos

Russ Ackoff, 1994

Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building, Agile Software Development, p. 400, 1985, Second edition

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, p. 12, 1997, Namaste Publishing

bonoboTP, Hacker News, 2025

Sebastiano Tronto, When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order", 2025

Linda Mathews in John Maloof & Charlie Siskel's, Finding Vivian Maier, 2013

Vivian Maier in John Maloof, Charlie Siskel's, Finding Vivian Maier, 2013

Barry Wallis in John Maloof, Charlie Siskel's, Finding Vivian Maier, 2013

dad, sharing an old engineering maxim, 2025

Sam Anderson, Jack Davison, What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain, The New York Times, 2025

Aishwarya Goel, You Didn't See It Coming, 2025

samstokes, Magical systems thinking, Hacker News, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Odo in Ursula K. Le Guin's, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 4, 1974, Harper & Row

Graham Christensen, Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems, 2020

Zach Helfand, The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department, The New Yorker, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 3, 1974, Harper & Row

Andrew Kelley, An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 3, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 3, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 3, 1974, Harper & Row

Craig Mod, September Update, Special Projects Newsletter, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Shevek in Ursula K. Le Guin's, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Robin Sloan, What's an old AI model worth?, 2025

Colin Percival, Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership, Daemonic Dispatches, 2025

Shevek & Bedap in Ursula K. Le Guin's, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Laura Matsue Guenther, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974, Harper & Row

Emily Moran Barwick, An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public), 2025

J.D. Simkins, The National Guard, DC landscaping and the great pursuit of lethality, Military Times, 2025

Kate Morley, Mastodon, 2025

kstrauser, Thrashing, Hacker News, 2025

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. The Fighting Impulse, 2025

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. The Fighting Impules, p. 102-103, 2025

Leopold Jacoby, Der Fischfang in den Lagunen von Comacchio nebst einer Darstellung der Aalfrage, 1881

Mike Hoye, Thrashing, blarg, 2025

Mike Hoye, Thrashing, blarg, 2025

Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me, Ch. 1, 2014, Haymarket Books

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. Language, p. 81-82, 2025

Jippensha Ikku, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, or Shank's Mare, Edo period

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. Invitations, p. 54, 2025

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. John, p. 52, 2025

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things, Ch. John, p. 46-47, 2025

Frank Chimero, Time is On My Side, 2025

Laura Killingbeck, Life in the Yard, 2025

Laura Killingbeck, Life in the Yard, 2025

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved, 1758

Alan Kay in Andrew Binstock's, Dr. Dobb’s Interview with Alan Kay, Dr. Dobb's, 2012

Hector Dearman, Byte - a visual archive, 2025

Hector Dearman, Byte - a visual archive, 2025

Kyle Kingsbury, The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess, Aphyr, 2025

ykl, Google's Liquid Cooling, Hacker News, 2025

Dave Gauer, I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me, 2025

Dave Gauer, I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me, 2025

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, Ch. Walkers, p. 28, 2025, Random House

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, Ch. Walkers, p. 20, 2025, Random House

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, Ch. Howdy, p. 9, 2025, Random House

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, Ch. Howdy, p. 9, 2025, Random House

Craig Mod, Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, Ch. Howdy, p. 8, 2025, Random House

Alex Kladov in veqq's, Lobsters Interview with Matklad, Lobsters, 2025

Alex Kladov in veqq's, Lobsters Interview with Matklad, Lobsters, 2025

Linus Lee, Hyperlink maximalism, 2022

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 2, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974

Kimoe & Shevek in Ursula K. Le Guin's, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974

Shevek in Ursula K. Le Guin's, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, p. 15, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, p. 15, 1974

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974, Harper & Row

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974, Harper & Row

Alan Jacobs, A word to my students, The Homebound Symphony, 2025

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ch. 1, 1974, Harper & Row

Clayton Ramsey, My second year of grad school: reflections, 2025

Geoff Manaugh, Mineral Hurricane, BLDGBLOG, 2025

Rakhim Davletkali, Dreaming of obsession, 2014

Mashkioya, The times they have changed, Ziphen Central, 2008

Marlon Brando in Saturday Night with Connie Chung, 1990

Hugo Landau, The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website, 2022

Robin Sloan, Dead Man's Switch, 2025

Esther Schindler, The Old Family Photos Project: Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep, Medium, 2018

Deborah Levy, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places, Ch. Conversations with Famous Artists I Have Known, p. 21-22, 2004, Dalkey Archive Press

John Maloof, Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work, 2010

Jennifer Hodgson, The Gustav Metzgers of Gentrification, 2015

M. John Harrison, The End of Everything, 2025

Laura Killingbeck, Embrace the Chaos, 2022

Charlie Stross, August update, Charlie's Diary, 2025

M. John Harrison, imaginary country, 2025

M. John Harrison, Bluesky, 2025

Alan Jacobs, Alasdair Macintyre R.I.P., The Homebound Symphony, 2025

AZSaguaros, Question about Pantone colours, 2025

Robin Sloan, Double pulse, 2025

Stephen Jay Gould, The Return of Hopeful Monsters, Natural History, 1977

Yossi Kreinin, LLMs aren’t world models, 2025

Craig Mod, Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa, 2025

Alan Jacobs, the daily driver, The Homebound Symphony, 2025

Rabbi Zachi Asher, Curtains of Fear, The Epichorus, 2025

Rabbi Zachi Asher, Curtains of Fear, The Epichorus, 2025

Rabbi Zachi Asher, Curtains of Fear, The Epichorus, 2025

Richard Powers, The Overstory, The Overstory, 2018

Viggo Mortensen in 10 Questions, TIME, 2008

voidfox, Payment Processor Fun 2025 — Making Your Own MSP, 2025

Drew Breunig, Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?, 2025

Craig Mod, Summer Heatray Days, Roden, 2025

David Chisnall, Lobsters, 2025

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Rabbi Zachi Asher, Morocco Night at Barzakh, The Epichorus, 2025

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, 1966, Harcourt, Brace & World

Mike D., A comment on The Name is Shrdlu... Etaoin Shrdlu, 2009

Fidel Castro, 1961

Nathan Beck, Addicted to Every Possibility, 2025

Craig Mod, The Good Place, 2025

Loyle Carner, ♫ Sun of Jean, Yesterday's Gone, 2017

Matt Webb, Copyright your faults, Interconnected, 2025

Bert Ghezzi, The Angry Christian, 1980

Steve Jobs in The Lost Interview, 1995

Jonathan Basile, Babel Image Archives

Tracy Chapman, ♫ If Not Now, Tracy Chapman, 1988

possibly Bill Vaughan

Mike Hall, I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since, 2025

Zivar Amrami, Temple of Flowers, The Epichorus, 2025

Matt Muir, Webcurios 18/07/25, Web Curios, 2025

Byrne Hobart, Working in Public and the Economics of Free, The Diff, 2020

Locke & Girl in Michelangelo Antonioni's, The Passenger, 1975

Girl in Michelangelo Antonioni's, The Passenger, 1975

Robertson & Locke in Michelangelo Antonioni's, The Passenger, 1975

Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea, 2020, Random House

Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea, 2020, Random House

Sylvia Strum Bremer, Syl-o-ettes, The Daily Times, p. 14, 1950

Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea, 2020, Random House

yndoendo, 2025

Brewster Kahle, Wikipedia

Barry Munitz, Foreword to the Time & Bits Report, 1998

Julie Momméja, Time, Bits, and Nickel, The Long Now, 2025

Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, 2021, Genever Benning

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Robin Sloan, The Summer Book Sale, 2025

Evening Sentinel, 1934

Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Jimmy's Big Adventure, Or There Were No Cars in Detroit, The Epichorus, 2025, Temenos

Dr. Anna Lembke in Lulu Garcia-Navarro's, Digital Drugs Have Us Hooked. Dr. Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out., The New York Times, 2025

Jack Cheng, Induced Demand, Sunday, 2025

Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Danglars in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Paolo Nutini, ♫ Tricks Of The Trade, Sunny Side Up, 2009

Ian Bogost, Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore, The Atlantic, 2025

Ian Bogost, Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore, The Atlantic, 2025

Haydee in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Haydee in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Robin Sloan, What happens when the intelligence goes out?, 2025

Linus Lee, Wonder engines, 2025

Linus Lee, Wonder engines, 2025

Linus Lee, Wonder engines, 2025

Craig Mod, A Short Walk to a Little Bookshop, Ridgeline, 2025

Zivar Amrami, Temple of Flowers, The Epichorus, 2025, Temenos

Maximilian Morrel in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Maximilian Morrel in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

anonymous in Thomas de Waal's, Armenia, Azerbaijan on the brink – again, Engelsberg ideas, 2023

Thomas de Waal, Armenia, Azerbaijan on the brink – again, Engelsberg Ideas, 2023

Robin Sloan, Software People and the rate of change, Dragoncatcher, 2025

Daniel Milnor, Read: Things Become Other Things, Shifter, 2025

Daniel Milnor, Read: Things Become Other Things, Shifter, 2025

Phil Eaton, Edit for clarity, 2025

Jim Barksdale, from the end of a pre-IPO Netscape Roadshow given to investors, 1995

Rory Saur, Three visits, 2025

Laura Michet, Touching the back wall of the Apple store, 2025

Pope L, Pope.L. is Making a Commitment to Art, 2023, Louisiana Channel

D. Graham Burnett, Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?, The New Yorker, 2025

Manuel Moreale, On complaining, 2025

Bret Victor, Computational Public Space, Dynamicland, 2024

Derek Wessman, Stay, 2025

Nadia Asparouhova, Mapping Digital Worlds to Understand Our Present and Future, The Stoa, 2023

Richard Gabriel in Janice J. Heiss's, The Poetry of Programming, 2002

Richard Gabriel in Janice J. Heiss's, The Poetry of Programming, 2002

Richard Gabriel in Janice J. Heiss's, The Poetry of Programming, 2002

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 487, 1846, Barnes & Noble (2011 edition)

Craig Mod, On the Creative Power of Walking, Literary Hub, 2025

Craig Mod, On the Creative Power of Walking, Literary Hub, 2025

Robin Sloan, Platform reality, Dragoncatcher, 2025

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846, Barnes & Noble (2011 edition)

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Monte Cristo in Alexandre Dumas's, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

Heraclitus, 5th century BC

James Gosling, Java: An Overview, 1995

Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town, 1979

Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town, 1979

Richard P. Gabriel, The Art of Lisp & Writing, Dreamsongs, 2006

Luc Sante, Translators note to the abridged edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, 2004, Barnes & Noble Classics

J. R. R. Tolkein, The Two Towers, 1954

Robin Sloan, The Good Place, 2025

Carlana M. Johnson, Lobsters, 2025

Bobby Holley, Must be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code, 2015

Michael Trommer, Entroment, 2025

Larry Wall, Programming Perl, 1991, O'Reilly

Jon Batiste in The Quest for Originality, episode 775, The Tim Ferriss Show, 2024

Jon Batiste, The Quest for Originality, episode 775, The Tim Ferriss Show, 2024

Susanne Oberheu & Michael Wadenpohl, Cappadocia: A Travel Guide Through the Land of Fairychimneys and Rock Castles, 2010

unknown

Tony Lip in Peter Farrelly's, Green Book, 2018

Rakhim Davletkali, But what if I really want a faster horse?, 2025

Zao Dao, Cuisine Chinoise: Tales of Food and Life, p. 4, 2020, Dark Horse Books

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years, 1942

Robin Sloan, The master at work, alone, 2025

Kurt Vonnegut, A letter of reply to Xavier High School, 2006

C.S. Lewis, On Living in an Atomic Age, 1948

Robert Caro in Lizzie Gottlieb's, Turn Every Page, 2022

Robert Caro in Lizzie Gottlieb's, Turn Every Page, 2022

Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? Read it as if one were writing it, The Yale Review, 1926

Matt Lemmone, Dumb Little Black Box, 2025

Robert Stephens, A post on The Good Place messageboard, 2025

Craig Mod, Day 8 — Totsukawa, Hongu, and Protecting Full Days, About A Nightingale, 2025

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1782

Ben Wagner, In reply to Aaron Howes on The Good Place messageboard, 2025

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it., 2018

McArthur Binion in Louisiana Channel's, How can I paint without a brush?, 2025

John Higgs, John Higgs's Octannual Manual #58, Octannual Manual, 2025

Adam Moore, Rich Text, Poor Text, FROM THE DESK OF MR. LÆMEUR, 2013

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, p. 88, 1955, Beacon Press

Robert Heaton, It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself, 2025

Jack Clark, Import AI

Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction, Ch. The Silence is the Loudest Sound, p. 101, 2020, Penguin Canada

Sonja in Martha Beck's, The Way of Integrity, Ch. Desperate for Success, p. 23, 2021, Penguin Random House

Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction, Ch. The Language of Literature, p. 90, 2020, Penguin Canada

Mulaqat Ali in Arundhati Roy's, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction, 2020, Penguin Canada

Edmond Baudoin, Dali, Art Masters, p. 89, 2016, SelfMadeHero

Edmond Baudoin, Dali, Art Masters, p. 48, 2016, SelfMadeHero

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, p. 33, 2017, Fantagraphics

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, p. 15, 2017, Fantagraphics

Romeo in Jordi Lafebre's, Always Never, p. 116, 2021, Europe Comics

Hans Zimmer in Francis Hanly's, Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel, 2022

Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell, A Mind At Home With Itself, 2017, Ebury Publishing

Craig Mod, Day 6 — Cafés and Dockyards, About a Nightingale, 2025

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, Ch. Foreword, p. viii, 1949, Oxford University Press

John Steinbeck, letter to Pascal Covici, 1951

why the lucky stiff

John Adams, Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1780

Craig Mod, Day 3 — Holy Spots, Cackles, Diving Women, About A Nightingale, 2025

Craig Mod, Day 3 — Holy Spots, Cackles, Diving Women, About A Nightingale, 2025

phiresky, Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space, 2025

Sophie Scholl (disputed), 1943

Fabienne Peter in Rawls' Theory of Justice, 2023

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Ch. Epistle III, 1733

Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, Ch. 2, p. 16-18, 1988, Atlantic

Ada Limón, "Obedience", The Hurting Kind, 2022

pastagang, Kill the “User”: Musings of a disillusioned technologist

Ken Siemens, Boxes, 2025

Thelonius Monk, T.Monk's Advice, 1960

Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Kazimierz Łyszczyński, De non-existentia Dei, 1674

Sebastian Junger, Freedom, 2021, Simon & Schuster

Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying, p. 12, 2024, Simon & Schuster

Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying, p. 6-7, 2024, Simon & Schuster

Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying, p. 6, 2024, Simon & Schuster

Pablo Picasso in Men Walk On Moon, The New York Times, p. 6, 1969

Vincent Zabus, Magritte: This is Not a Biography, p. 41, 2016

Vincent Zabus, Magritte: This is Not a Biography, 2016

Clayton Cubitt

Kyle, 2025

Craig Mod, Driving the Tōkaidō, Ridgeline, 2025

Craig Mod, Driving the Tōkaidō, Ridgeline, 2025

Craig Mod, Driving the Tōkaidō, Ridgeline, 2025

William Gibson in David Wallace-Wells's, William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211, The Paris Review, 2011

William Gibson in David Wallace-Wells's, William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211, The Paris Review, 2011

Christopher Butler, Windows, Frames, and Other Realities, 2025

Unknown

L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953, Hamish Hamilton

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Envy: That Guy Goes Past Yet Again in His Mercedes-Benz, p. 142, 2016, Avery

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Envy: That Guy Goes Past Yet Again in His Mercedes-Benz, p. 140-141, 2016, Avery

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Envy: That Guy Goes Past Yet Again in His Mercedes-Benz, p. 137, 2016, Avery

Rintrah, An image of an era, 2025

Rintrah, An image of an era, 2025

Erin Kissane, Bad shape, wreckage/salvage, 2025

Respiratory System, Birdfact

Na Kim in Maria Owen's, Na Kim Designs Your Favorite Book Covers. Now She’s Painting For Herself., Interview Magazine, 2025

Robin Sloan, Winter Reading, 2025

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 131-132, 2016, Avery

Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living, 2023, Viking

James Thomson, I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time, Three Letter Acronym, 2025

Kevin Kelly, 2022

Kevin Kelly, Biography, 2022

Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn, 1994, Viking Press

Sylvia, 2024

Rick Perlstein, How to Hear a Fascist, The American Prospect, 2024

Judah Grunstein, Thread on trust, Bluesky, 2025

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Douglas Walton, New Dialectical Rules for Ambiguity, Informal Logic, Vol. 20, p. 261-274, 2000

dang, Hacker News Guidelines

Erin Kissane, How we'll do discussions here, wreckage/salvage, 2025

Steph Ango, File over app, 2023

Roberta Smith, An Artist of Selective Abandon, The New York Times, 2011

Eric TF Bat, Comment: time_t Hard Mode, 2024

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 20, 1850

Sachin Benny, Thinking About Leaving, Summer Lightning, 2025

Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, p. 11, 1988, Atlantic

Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, p. 10, 1988, Atlantic

Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, p. 5, 1988, Atlantic

Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) in Dr. Stergios Tegos's, Microneurosurgery with video tapes, 1998, Medical Publications Konstandaras

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 130, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 129, 2016, Avery

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 127, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama said in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 127, 2016, Avery

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 125-126, 2016, Avery

Desmond Tutu in The Book of Joy, Ch. Loneliness: No Need for Introduction, p. 122, 2016, Avery

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Despair: The World is in Such Turmoil, p. 123, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Despair: The World is in Such Turmoil, p. 121, 2016, Avery

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, 1968

Dr. Martin Luther King, The Other America, 1967

Douglas Abrams in The Book of Joy, Ch. Sadness and Grief: The Hard Times Knit Us More Closely Together, p. 111, 2016, Avery

Desmond Tutu in The Book of Joy, Ch. Sadness and Grief: The Hard Times Knit Us More Closely Together, p. 109-110, 2016, Avery

Desmond Tutu in The Book of Joy, Ch. Frustration and Anger, p. 105, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Frustration and Anger, p. 104, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Frustration and Anger, p. 104, 2016, Avery

Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, Ch. Frustration and Anger, p. 102, 2016, Avery

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Key in Jason Pargin's, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, Ch. Day 1, p. 75, 2024, St. Martin's Press

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Key in Jason Pargin's, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, Ch. Day 1, p. 72, 2024, St. Martin's Press

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Joel Meyerowitz, The Big Interview, Monocle, 2024

Georgia O’Keeffe, Foreword of the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926

Nikhil Suresh, I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, 2024

David Gerrold, Is That a Pita in Your Pocket, Smart Reseller Magazine, 1999

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Macklemore, Ten Thousand Hours, The Heist (2012), 2012

Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill, 2024

Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill, 2024

Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill, 2024

Laura Killingbeck, Empathy is a Survival Skill, 2024

Lionel 'Ploum' Dricot, P&B: Ploum, People & Blogs, 2024

Sophie Saint Thomas, What Is a Twin Flame, and How Is It Different From a Soul Mate?, allure, 2022

People Who Stutter Create: Stuttering Can Create Time, Whitney Museum of Art

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant About “Technology”, 2005

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant About “Technology”, 2005

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Diane Arbus

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York, 1924

Ran Prieur

Ran Prieur

Julian Assange, Google Is Not What It Seems, Wikileaks

Kevin Lynagh, Inventory software, useful LLMs, haunted stm32, casual modeling, minimalist workouts, 2024

Stewart Baker, NSA General Counsel

Sachin Benny, Pax Sardinia, Summer Lightning, 2024

H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu, 1926

Sachin Benny, Pax Sardinia, Summer Lightning, 2024

John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, Ch. 1, p. 1, 1954, Viking Press

Walt Whitman, Assurances, Whispers Of Heavenly Death, 1891

Walt Whitman, Preface, Leaves of Grass, 1855

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Gustave Flaubert, written to Gertrude Tennant, 1876

Red Hot Chili Peppers, C'mon Girl, Stadium Arcadium, 2006

H. L. Mencken’s, A Book of Prefaces, 1917

Richard P. Gabriel, The Rise of Worse is Better, 1991

Harold Washington

Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Mouldiness Manifesto Against Rationalism In Architecture, A signed and numbered brochure, edited by Galerie Renate Boukes, 1958

Casually Explained, Photography, 2023

Diane Arbus

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Susan Sontag, On Photography, Ch. In Plato's Cave, 1977

Harald Høffding

Reinhold Niebuhr, 1932

Robert Heaton, How sad should I be about ChatGPT?, 2022

Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, 1971

Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, 2018

Andy Matuschak, In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023, 2024

Paul Ford, Why So Bad, AI Ads?, aboard, 2024

John L. Heilbron, Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction, 2020

Oscar Wilde, Intentions, 1891

Niels Bohr, Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics, 1949

Jenny Wen, Don't trust the (design) process, The faintest idea, 2024

Thomas Jefferson, From Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, 1791

Anthony Bourdain, One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles, The New Yorker

R. Barbour, Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student's Guide, p. 257, 2013, Sage (2nd edition)

Sam Seliger, “No Salt”, The Story's Story

Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time, 1998

Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, p. 2

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Zadie Smith, NW, 2012

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902

Jake Seliger, How do you say goodbye?

Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness, The Story's Story

Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness, The Story's Story

Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit, 2014

Michael Levin and Rafael Yuste, How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up, Aeon

Dessa, ♫ Sound the Bells, Parts of Speech, 2013

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, 1886

Venkatesh Rao, Imagination vs Creativity

Lewis Fry Richardson, Weather prediction by numerical process, 1922

Karma, In Our Time

Matt Webb, Karma as ancient progress studies

Alexander Obenauer, Noticing the problem with our operating systems, The Interfaces With Which We Think

Alexander Obenauer, The Interfaces With Which We Think

Jane Friedman, Being a Very Online Advice-Giver Has Made My Writing Worse

Thomas Edison, Edison in His Laboratory, Harpers Magazine, Vol. 165, p. 403, 1932, Harper & Brothers

McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things, The Whippet, 2022

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, Ch. 3, 1997

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017

Truman Capote

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael, 2017

Mona Simpson, A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs, 2011

Frank Chimero, Big Ideas, 2010

Frank Chimero, Big Ideas, 2010

Eva Zeisel

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

Frank Chimero, Redesign: The Raccoon King of Garbage Mountain, 2020

possibly Saint Teresa of Avila

Margaret Mead

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, 1997

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

N. S. Lyons, Autonomy and the Automaton, The Upheavel

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation, 2008, Macmillan

Wikipedia, Dada

Daniel Kolesa, Chimera Linux

Igor Antonov in Irina Kravtsova's, It’s like I drew a door and disappeared through it, Meduza, 2021

bobbyfiend, Fragile Masculinity (a.k.a. Precarious Manhood), tumblr, 2023

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 1883

John Warner, Ideas Aren't Worth Anything, The Biblioracle Recommends

Thomas Mann, Tristan, p. 70, 1903

High Lama in Frank Capra's, Lost Horizon, 1937

Henry Wismayer, The Unending Allure Of High Mountains, Noema, 2024

Bentley Beetham, 1924

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain, 1977

René Daumal, Mount Analogue, 1952

Pete Boardman, The Shining Mountain: Two Men on Changabang's West Wall, 1976

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust, 2000

John Harlin

Lord George Curzon, 1899

an unknown architect, 1920

W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939, Another Time, 1940

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1832

Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 1999

Pete Millspaugh, Things I found interesting in Bonnie Nardi’s “A Small Matter of Programming”

Lorin Hochstein, Green is the color of complacency, Surfing Complexity

straybob, 400 Miles of Jordan Ep 3

Craig Mod, Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks

Sara Hendren, not that kind of constraint, 2024

Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice, 1978

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 128, 1952

Paul Holdengräber, Adam Phillips, The Art of Nonfiction No. 7

John Muir

Jared White, Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again, 2024

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Dan Luu, Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

Publilius Syrus

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III), 2024

Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail

Ran Prieur, Feeling Good

Mike Grindle, Some Thoughts in Lieu of an Abandoned Post

Roger Ebert, Life Itself, 2011

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jamie Crisman, Getting Out, Getting Lost

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989, Harper & Row

Robin Berjon, Web Tiles: Towards a local-first, trustworthy Web, 2023

Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father, 1919

Paul Virilio, Politics of the Very Worst, 1999

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years, 1943

Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquia Familiaria, Ch. Diluculum, 1529

Jason Scott, Archiving in the Time of Streaming, TEXTFILES.COM, 2023

Chad Mazzola, Technologies of the Self: A Short Introduction, 2019

Bix Frankonis, The Identity Of Blogging And The Blogging Of Identity, 2023

Tove Jansson, The Deceitful Children's Book Author, 1961

Kate DiCamillo, Making Hearts Large Through Story, 2014

George Saunders, Office Hours, Story Club with George Saunders, 2023

Emily M. Bender, Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge”, 2023

George Saunders, Office Hours, Story Club with George Saunders, 2023

George Saunders, Office Hours, Story Club with George Saunders, 2023

George Saunders, Office Hours, Story Club with George Saunders, 2023

Sarah Scoles, Why We’ll Never Live in Space, Scientific American, 2023

Phil Hawes in Sarah Scoles's, Why We’ll Never Live in Space, Scientific American, 2023

Lea Verou, Rethinking Categorization, 2023

Frank Outlaw in What They’re Saying, San Antonio Light, p. 7, 1977

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, 2016, Faber & Faber

Venkatesh Rao, The Resourceful Life, Ribbon Farm, 2023

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 1996

Aaron Swartz, Fix the machine, not the person, Raw Nerve, 2012

Lana Del Rey, ♫ Mariners Apartment Complex, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019

Jes Olson, 2023

Stephen Wolfram, The Making of A New Kind of Science, 2022

Winston S. Churchill, The Mother of all Monopolies, 1909

Vaber

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, 1970

Google, Google Earth

G.K. Chesterton, The New Jersusalem, 1920

David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?, 2023

Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

Thomas A. Clark, In Praise of Walking, 1988, Cairn Gallery

Thomas A. Clark, In Praise of Walking, 1988, Cairn Gallery

Craig Mod & Dan Rubin, Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo, 2016

N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society, 1989

Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface, 2000

Dramatic Identity

Nigel Calder

Giacomo Casanove

Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith, Ch. Faith Fears Not, p. 50, 1940, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York

Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time, 1969

Werner Herzog

Bessie A. Stanley, What Constitutes Success?, 1905

Fire of Love

Katia Krafft, Katia's journal

Nhat Hanh, How to Love, 2015

Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society, 1989

Mick Jackson, Temple Grandin, 2010

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

Christopher Sykes, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981

Richard Feynman in Christopher Sykes's, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981

Daniel Lawrence Lu, DLLU

Richard Feynman in Christopher Sykes's, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1981

smitty1e

D.H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, p. 420, 1936

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972

Ansel Adams

Wouter Groeneveld, Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs

When you have the right building in the wrong location

Technological Antisolutions

Arthur C. Train & Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth, 1915

Transclusion

Matt Webb, I wish my web server were in the corner of my room, 2022

Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar, 2011

timeful

Thoughts on, and beyond markdown

The Universal Studios fire

Ryan J. A. Murhpy, When and how to publish notes: Publishing thinking effectively and efficiently, 2023

URL Design is API Design

Daniel Roher, Navalny, 2022

Atomic Design

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

unknown

Temple Grandin

Merlin Mann, Merlin's Wisdom Project

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, 1962

Kyle Aster, Toward a More Resilient Future

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

Shōtetsu, Snow in a Garden

Aaron Swartz, Release Late, Release Rarely

Maciej Cegłowski

unknown

Jason Scott, destruction

Ask Culture meets Guess Culture

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin, 1939

Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson: It is the Imagination that Counts

Ansel Adams

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

Rumi

Eric Beck, 1965

Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, 2006, Disney-Hyperion

David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2015, Penguin Books

I Am the Ghost Here

Sir William Cecil in Robert Oxton Bolt's, Vivat! Vivat Regina!, 1970

George Box (Statistician), Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, p. 201–236, 1978

D. W. Brogan, The American Character, 1944

Joseph Chamberlain, 1898

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person

Susan Sontag, To Tell A Story, 1983

David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2001

Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, Caltech commencement address, 1974

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings, 1987

unknown, probably not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, 1969

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, 2013

Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker, 1975

Michael in Barry Levinson's, Sleepers, 1996

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

Matthew 7:13–14, The New Testament

Genesis 412

Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Semantic linefeeds, a writing aid

Arthur Rimbaud, Letter to Paul Demeny, 1871

Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents, 1984

Travel in the time of coronavirus

Hayao Miyazaki, 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki, 2019

Erin Ptacek, Be Coachable

Lamar Burgess, Minority Report, 2002

Maciej Cegłowski, The Website Obesity Crisis, 2015

Dave Gauer, nosurf

Notting quite like Notting Hill

Why is CSS such a poor language for layout?

Benjamin Whorf

A couple cool contemporary contributions to chaos

Your native language affects how you see this image

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, 1922

Benjamin Whorf

Princess Mononoke, my first Ghibli

What is Craig Mod doing?

An uncanny valley of speed

Richard O’Keefe, 2012

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, The Atlantic, 1945

Avery Pennarun, Societal Interstructures and Bigness of Thought, 2005

Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, 2012

Forcing function

Pangram

Craig Mod on cropping

Te Araroa – The Long Pathway

Corpus

Commonplace book

Random access

Compound interest

Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens, p. 4, 2014

Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities, p. 3, 2014

Nadia Eghbal, The tyranny of ideas, 2019

Nadia Eghbal, The tyranny of ideas, 2019

Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Esquire, 1936

When Alex Hope finds a Prime Minister's passport number

Independence for whom

Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 1975

unknown

David McCullough, Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4

unknown, A place for everything, everything in its place

Benjamin Clementine, ♫ Winston Churchill’s Boy, At Least For Now, 2015

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD, 2009

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD, 2009

Eberhard Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting (Second Edition), 2000

Mae West

Pope Francis

Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Phil Karlton, The Curmudgeon's Homepage


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